Primarily the UK and the U.S. lied to their citizens and the
world about the issues that led to two wars and thousands of American
lives. We all know that it’s our politicians
that send our children off to fight their adventures. Politicians must rely on public support and
to gain that support time and time again through history they use lies and
propaganda to achieve their means.
Politicians are serial liars by their very nature. We all have the liars we prefer but we never demand they tell the truth.
A nation like Switzerland need not fear disclosure of their
efforts because that nation is not ever involved with policing the world with
their ideals.
Unfortunately the United States is run by a bunch of politicians
that always gain personal profit for their misconduct. War is always profitable for our politicians
even when they can’t win.
The role of a journalist is not to protect governments, but
to tell the world just what their governments are doing. Famed writer, George Orwell that I quoted
above also said, “"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want
printed; everything else is public relations."
Julian Assange has taken great personal risk to do his
job. He’s embarrassed politicians
worldwide and now they want to make him pay simply because he did his job. There is an incredibly huge paradox, the
nations screaming the loudest are the ones that claim they have freedom of the
press.
I feel uncomfortable joining the ranks of Michael Moore,
Danny Glover and assorted Left Wing radicals that have come out in support to
Julian Assange. I dare to say that the
founding fathers of this great nation would have supported him too.
We must demand truthfulness, transparency and accountability
of our government no matter what political animal or party is in charge.
It’s a total farce that the UK has placed a ring of 40 cops
around the Ecuadorean embassy 24/7 to nab Assange if he tries to leave. Ecuador has done the right thing here and I
salute them in the name of freedom.
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There are serious downside issues none the least of which was protecting the data and in that respect our government failed miserably. I’m convinced that the American public was the last to see the material that was published. If some blogger can get it so could any enemy government.
Our frenetic searches for the truthtellers (Abu Gharaib, Cook County morgue body photo, etc) knows no end yet the corrupt decision makers (politicians & Wall Street) are seldom held accountable.
Orwellian in nature with a visual of bars over a man's face, who is being proclaimed by the press to be monster when the incident that started all this – was his son’s death while in the California High School’s care.
It is true that George Orwell’s thought police are alive and well and are living In California.
And the High School does bear some fault in how they took care of the kid and the kid’s family, but the press has not highlighted this - which is key.
So this is an arbitrary story on behalf of the School’s public relations, and not journalism at all, where a father who has been excluded by the school and victimized by his son’s death has been turned into a monster by the press because of his thoughts.
The dad through his crazy action plus his thoughts has highlighted that he believes the school bears some fault in his son’s suicide, but you would have to be looking for the truth - to be able to see the meaning in the man’s message.
They say the devil is in the details, and it certainly is - when used to frame people by covering-up pertinent details, by those in the media and Government who will only profit.
But isn't that what George Orwell was saying?
Have I come full circle? An Orwellian circle.
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2012/08/rainer_klaus_reinscheid_uc_irv.php
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2012/08/rainer_klaus_reinscheid_uc_irv.php
"Only two persons in the government have had the courage to risk life imprisonment to leak massive amounts of government documents. Daniel Ellsberg leaked thousands of documents that revealed the sordid history of the US involvement in Vietnam and who President Nixon labeled for his actions “the most dangerous man in America.”
And now, Bradley Manning who is accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of documents that reveal war crimes in the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and questionable US diplomatic policies and duplicity with governments around the world.
The charges of “aiding and abetting the enemy” and of espionage are meant to threaten any others who might find the evidence of government criminal actions and alert the American public."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/governments-warning-bradley-manning-and-others-tell-us-and-we-will-put-you-behind-bars-rest-your-life
Meanwhile, the Swedish government and the MSM continue to largely ignore the Swedish epidemic of violent forced rapes by non-Western immigrants that has officially turned Sweden into the rape capital of Europe and given it one of the highest per-capita rape rates on earth.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/14/obama-secret-kill-list-disposition-matrix